David Craig, on April 1st, 2024Monday-Wednesday blog:
In an article in the Sunday Telegraph at the weekend, Ed Miliband, the shadow net zero secretary, was quoted as saying: �Fourteen years of failed Tory energy policy has seen jobs driven overseas, our clean energy infrastructure imported from aboard, and our country left exposed to the worst cost of living crisis in memory. The Tories have had no industrial strategy and no plan � and households and businesses across the country have paid the price.”
In my very humble opinion, the man’s stupidity or self-delusion is beyond belief. And this clown will probably soon be in charge of Britain’s energy policy after the coming collapse of spineless Sunak’s useless fake Tories at the next election. Let me make this simple, really simple so even someone as thick as the useless Ed Miliband could understand:
Point 1: High energy prices make industry uncompetitive, bankrupt hospitality and service companies and destroy jobs and lives.
Point 2: Britain has some of the highest energy prices in the world (prices in $/kWh):
(Although it looks like Germany has higher energy prices than the UK, Germany’s heavy industry gets its energy at much lower prices than the above chart suggests)
Point 3: The more a country uses expensive, unreliable and intermittent supposed ‘renewables’, the higher its energy prices. Conversely, the lower a country’s use of useless supposed ‘renewables’ the lower its energy costs:
Point 4: When the farcical MIliband gets his hands on our energy policy, he will accelerate the development of useless and bankruptingly-expensive supposed ‘renewables’ like wind and solar and similarly speed up the move away from reliable, cheap, stable fossil fuels like oil and gas.
Point 5: So, here’s a big tough question. I’ll leave it up to you to guess the answer. When Starmer and Miliband’s Labour fools hugely increase the proportion of useless supposed’ renewables’ to save humanity from being destroyed by Global Boiling, will this:
- Make Britain into a world-beating clean energy superpower, as that great energy expert Sir Keir Starmer has promised us – a prosperous clean energy superpower admired and envied by its competitors?
- Bankrupt what pathetically little is left of British industry destroying jobs and wrecking people’s lives thus turning Britain into a bankrupt laughing stock used by other world leaders as an example of the crass stupidity of abandoning cheap, reliable fossil fuels and trying to replace them with expensive, unreliable supposed ‘renewables’?
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The problem is that Miliband has a lot of competition for the title of wrecker of lives. One name I would put forward is Nigel Nelson of GB News along with Rees-Mogg. They were discussing Net Zero last week and whilst Mogg says he does not want his constituents to be poorer, he believes that humans are causing climate change and so he has no arguments against the policy. GB News interviews many others who support this nonsense and the interviewers have no argument against their views. They never interview any of the scientists who can explain why we are not causing global warming. I can only come to the conclusion that they are like the BBC and are determined to promote net zero but in a different way.
There is a new video available – Climate The Movie. It has nothing new to say and it wouldn�t convince me to change my views if I believed in human causes. It certainly would not convince Greta or Attenborough. The belief in human caused climate change is a mass psychosis that is not going to end soon. It will need a failure of the energy supplies of even higher costs to produce a change, and even then people are not likely to believe they are wrong but they will accept environmental damage rather than face the consequences of the energy policies. But by then it will be too late to reverse the damage.
However, I think this is part of a bigger problem and it is described by Hans-Hermann Hoppe in his short book �From Aristocracy, to Monarchy, to Democracy�, with the subtitle – A tale of moral and economic folly and decay. It was written in 2014 and I am not aware of any update. I found it free on the internet, probably on mises.org. He describes it as logical or sociological reconstruction of history. He describes everything that has happened and why it has happened but not related to specific issues. His conclusion is that the democratic system is on the point of economic collapse and that decentralisation is the answer. Even if he is correct, collapse seems to be more likely than a change to prevent it.